St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-14
The Farmers Of Dakota Likely to be
Sorry They Put in So Much No.
l Hard This Spring.
A Chicago Grain Dealer Sees Numer
Gus Signs That Wheat Will be Too
Plentiful to Sell Well.
The President Disposed to Enforce the
Law Against the Grow Creek Set
tiers Very Gently.
Day Reiterates That He is Not Com.
plainant Against Church.
Judge Palmer.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, May ia gentleman
of large experience as dealer in grain,
having had his headquarters at Chicago
for many years, referring to the outlook
for the Northwest this year, saws: ''If
were small farmer. l mean having
only 100 or 500 acres, | would put in but
very little wheat this spring. The pros
poets are that there will be enormous
crops from the wheat belt. Dakota es-
pecially has been favored with Splen-
did opening season. Her prairies will
be teeming with grain and the poor
farmers will have it on their hands and
know not what to do with it in the fall
There will be lower prices paid than for
years past, because the supply will be
greater than the demand
would you let your land lie idle?"
''Nothing of the kind. would look at
the matter not merely as farmer. but
as business man. If were engaged
in selling cutlery and found out that
there were more knives, scissors and
raZors than the people wanted, I'd
switch off and sell other merchandise,
or go into some other business. rather
than continue wasting my time and
money on things that would simply
bring me loss and dissatisfaction as well
as possible misery"
What has that to do with your state
ment that you wouldn't put in any
wheat?'
Il said I'd put in very little wheat.
I'd SOW enough for myself. But that
doesn't neceSSitate any waste of time or
soil. The farmers ought to understand
Is OF w 70. tl,D,
pose of raising wheat. 1t is good for
corn, oats. barley, flax and many other
things. Why not raise COWS. sheep,
hogS. horses, and live on the fat of the
land next winter? Raise what is going
to sell. That is the great trouble with
most farmers. They
WORK LIKE BEAVERS,
but they don't read enough. They
ought to watch the markets with eager
eyes. They ought to read only the best
papers and get the most reliable infor-
nation on all matters in the markets
which affect their business. | believe
that man can't run his farm properly
any more than one can run any other
business carefully, without being posted
up to date on all market matters relat-
ing to his business.
Besides the railroad rates are going
to be ruinOus. Not only will the supply
.be greater than the demand and the
prices cOrrespondingly small. but the
rates will be high. All things cOnsid-
cred, regard this as an-off year for the
wheat growers of the Northwest land all
because OF the great prosperity of the
country. Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa
can almost feed the world. But the
world does not ask for the food. There
is the trouble. The country is prosper
Gus, almost fabulOuSly so: but the farm
erS are miSdirecting their good fortune
in measure. They are producing goods
which the world does not need in such
quantities. The population of the old
world is not increasing so rapidly as
might be supposed.
TIE WHEAT BELT
of this country has been doubled in the
last quarter of century. Production
seems greater than consumption. 1t is
a simple problem in political economy.
There is come upon us the time when
we must vary our endeavOrS. We must
produce other articles. The demands
for the staples have decreased.
'Of course the farmer cannot invent
and produce new novelties out of his
ground, as the merchant and manufac-
turer can out of their plants; but they
can vary their crops, and divide them
up to meet the demands. Men are meat
edecIS. Olock RAISING is always prOht-
able. Men will always need horses, no
matter how great and cheap steam and
electricity may be as motors. Horses
will always be in demand. There will
always be a necessity for the coarse
grains. True, wheat must be raised
every year, but not in excessive guam
titles. | have sat down in a sod house
in Northern Iowa and warmed myself
beside the fire which was made of corn,
stalks and all. because corn only brought
Is cents buShel and coal was SIS ton.
There was then an OverproductiOn of
corn. Now the danger lies in an over
production of wheat. l should hate to
see wheat going up in flames. as the corn
did. That is the reason | would advise
and strongly urge the farmers to look
ahead, and make their plans intelli-
gently"